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Regular Council Minutes 9-27-04 Page 12 Ms. Calta said you can leave it on second reading. Mrs. Mills said Finance has also agreed to further discussion of this. Ordinance 2004-331eft on second reading. OPEN PORTION - 3 minute limit imposed by Chair. Those who wish to speak must first state their name and address. This open portion is limited to discussion pertaining to the items under "Old Business" only. There were no comments. NEW BUSINESS Consideration of Appeal from Joseph & Martha Doran, 730 Oakwood Drive, for a variance to allow a thirty foot (30') extension along rear property line of the six foot high "full privacy fence" enclosing Jacuzzi hot tub Note: On August 17, 2004, the Board of Appeals considered and approved a six foot high "full privacy fence" to run from approximately the middle of the bedroom addition to the southern end of the porch only; Request fora 30' extension of six foot high "full privacy fence" along rear property line was considered & denied (Case #2004-0~) Mr. Saponaro said everyone should have gotten this in your packet. (Mr. Saponaro showed the diagram.) The portion in question is the dotted area to the left. My house is right here; across the street. Mr. Marrelli said a bit of background: the Appeals Board found that it was appropriate for the hot tub to be surrounded and allow a 3-sided privacy fence for the Dorans but denied the extension of that fence so that they could enclose more of the yard and hide sheds, hardware and pool equipment; they and their neighbors felt it would be of no harm for them to extend that fencing for privacy purposes and to hide that equipment. They were denied that extension. Mayor Rinker said in fact they had evidence from their neighbors of support of the proposal. Mr. Marrelli said yes, which I would expect they will bring forward tonight. Mr. Doran said at the Zoning Board of Appeals, our reasons for requesting were two-fold; one for safety and the second for privacy. The first for safety was to limit entry and preclude children from coming in if attracted to the tub. The second reason, and I think this was not really addressed by the Board of Appeals, was for privacy and comfort between us and our neighbors to the west with whom we've discussed our plans since moving in and they concurred and approved of what we are doing. We purchased our home about 2 years ago and have invested since then about 65% of the original purchase price in improvement and additions to the home. The fence we've requested is a full privacy fence and if you look at the plat survey, you will see in red the portion that was approved by Zoning Board of Appeals and the green dotted line running to the south is what we had additionally asked for as a privacy fence. ZBA said we could put any kind of a fence there we wanted but it couldn't be full privacy. We think it would 1